New submission from Andrei Kulakov <andrei....@gmail.com>:
https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/textwrap.html The 3 functions - wrap, fill, shorten -- have a signature like `(..., **kwargs)`, where kwargs are instance attrs of TextWrap. It would be better to list all possible args in the signature because: - more convenient for users rather than scrolling back and forth between description of the function and the list under TextWrap - the list under TextWrap is so long it doesn't fit on one screen. It would be great to have a compact list in the signature of these 3 functions - it's confusing -- at first sight, it seems like **kwargs will be taken in to be used by a subclass or maybe stored as attrs on the instance and not used, and it seems like arbitrary kwargs can be given. - the only reason it was done so, I guess, is that the list is long and unwieldy. But that's also the reason why the listing under TextWrap takes up more than a screenful and so more of an argument to have a compact list in the signature. - in case of fill, some args are a no-op, so they can be omitted from the signature, that will make it much easier to see all effective arguments. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 396817 nosy: andrei.avk, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add full list of possible args to textwrap: wrap, fill, shorten type: enhancement versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44544> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
